Horror : Man ate off 8-month-old baby’s manhood during circumcision

By Eric Patrick 

 Horror as 74-year-old man (names withheld) from
Ondewari community in Southern Ijaw Local Government
 Area of Bayelsa State has allegedly chopped off the manhood of an eight-month old baby boy during circumcision.

Meanwhile, the International Federation of Women 
Lawyers, FIDA, Bayelsa State chapter, has called on 
security operatives in the state to arrest and prosecute the septuagenarian.

Chairperson of FIDA, Bayelsa State, Dise Ogbise-Erhisere,
stated this in Yenagoa during a visit to the child at the
 Federal Medical Centre, FMC, yesterday.

Narrating the sad incident to newsmen, the father of the
 child, Joseph Michael, who hails from Okputuwari 
community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, said 
that the man demanded for the child for circumcision from 
his wife without his knowledge and only for him to hear that his son’s manhood had been chopped off.

He, however, called for financial support for the treatment
 of the child, saying that the present predicament had 
drained their resources. He asked well-meaning individuals and humanitarian organisations to come to their aid.